Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279075 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16377
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical growth model using country panel data from 1950–2015. We then juxtapose the estimates with predicted shifts in population age structure to project economic growth in 2020–2050. Our results indicate that population aging will slow economic growth throughout much of the world. Expansions of labor supply due to improvements in functional capacity among older people can cushion much of this demographic drag.
Subjects: 
population health
life expectancy
prospective aging
labor supply
economic development
JEL: 
J11
O11
O47
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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